Beat / Hi Matt, great to have you on board! For some, reverb is just a tool, for others it’s an instrument at its own. I bet you belong to the latter. Why? What makes you create and re-create reverb so ambitiously in so many facettes?
Matt / Coming from an EDM and remixing background means that to me reverb was always a part of the essence of a sound effect, a synth patch or a riff/hook itself. Reverb and effects are baked into synth factory patches of course so I learnt about reverb while I learnt about synthesis. What drove me into reverb design itself was a simple over-investment in synth hardware. The Access, Waldorf and Novation late 90s VA classics proving irresistible to a twenty-something with a student loan in his pocket!
The corresponding under-investment in outboard gear became a problem when it came to the final mix. I had nothing to pull the mix together into a cohesive whole as native reverbs at a time were scarce and just not up to the task. Certainly no established hardware reverb developers that knew the dark arts had arrived on the scene yet offering up their premium algorithms as we see today. I was always a bit lost at sea. Visits to studios with Lexicons (and later Bricastis) to polish up mixes
